Two days left for counselling; 34% MBA seats still vacant

TNN | Updated: Aug 13, 2019, 10:41 IST

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BHOPAL: With only two days left for online admission counselling for MBA course in the state, 34% seats are still vacant. The college-level counselling is being organized and colleges are hoping to fill about 10% of the seats in the next two days. There are 168 colleges in the state that run MBA course. According to a DTE data, there are 21,411 seats for which the admission process is being held. Out of these seats, 14, 179 seats have been filled up while 7232 are still vacant. Majority of the MBA courses are being run by private colleges across the state. This could be gauged from the fact that only 10 government universities and colleges have MBA course out of 168 campuses. Incidentally, MCA, the most sought-after course till a few years back, is now hardly finding any takers as hardly 10% seats in MCA have been filled till Monday. The situation is grim even though the college-level counselling has been opened after two routine rounds. There are 42 colleges in the state which run MCA courses, out of this 10 colleges are government and self-financing courses. The director of technical education has extended the last date of MCA counselling till August 14.

Interestingly, there used to be around 215 colleges across the state, including 67 in Bhopal, which offered MCA courses. Official records say around 80% of their students appearing for pre-MCA test every year were from the state, while the rest were from other states. On the other hand, students said that DTE should have announced the college-level counselling earlier. “By extending the date, there is not much increase in the turnout of students in different courses,” Reema Yadav, a student from Gwalior said.